Welcome to the EU engine room: the European Parliament (EP's) 22 committees, which churn out hundreds of new laws and non-binding reports each year and which keep an eye on other European institutions.
EP committees made the headlines in autumn when they rejected French, Hungarian, and Romanian nominees to join the European Commission.
The candidates' hearings were prepared by each committee's "secretariat", a group of EP officials.
The committee chairs led public debate...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.